Topological signatures in CMB temperature anisotropy maps

Details Topological signatures in CMB temperature anisotropy maps Topological signatures in CMB temperature anisotropy maps

2005-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507238v2

Phys.Rev.D72:103008,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, 7 eps figures, revtex4, submitted to PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.103008

We propose an alternative formalism to simulate CMB temperature maps in $\Lambda$CDM universes with nontrivial spatial topologies. This formalism avoids the need to explicitly compute the eigenmodes of the Laplacian operator in the spatial sections. Instead, the covariance matrix of the coefficients of the spherical harmonic decomposition of the temperature anisotropies is expressed in terms of the elements of the covering group of the space. We obtain a decomposition of the correlation matrix that isolates the topological contribution to the CMB temperature anisotropies out of the simply connected contribution. A further decomposition of the topological signature of the correlation matrix for an arbitrary topology allows us to compute it in terms of correlation matrices corresponding to simpler topologies, for which closed quadrature formulae might be derived. We also use this decomposition to show that CMB temperature maps of (not too large) multiply connected universes must show ``patterns of alignment'', and propose a method to look for these patterns, thus opening the door to the development of new methods for detecting the topology of our Universe even when the injectivity radius of space is slightly larger than the radius of the last scattering surface. We illustrate all these features with the simplest examples, those of flat homogeneous manifolds, i.e., tori, with special attention given to the cylinder, i.e., $T^1$ topology.

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